Holder for ironing-board covers.



E. J. APPLBTON. HOLDER FOR IRONING BOARD COVERS. APPLICATION FILED FBILZO, 1911. RENEWED DEU. 28, 1912. ,@;52,02s

Patented Feb. 4, 1913 Witwe/axe: m 1M Waite entran stradine earns ernten EDW'ARI) J. APPLETON, OF ASHLAND, KENTUCKY.

Application led February 20, 1911, Serial No. 609,766. Renewed December 28, 1912.

Specification of Letters Patent.

ran-,area rei. 4,1913.

Serial No. 739,156.

VT 0 all 'whom z'z may concer/z of Kentucky, have invented certainA new' and useful improvements in Holdersl for Ironing-Board Covers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

This invention relates to a class of devices .or holders adapted more particularly for detachably holding a cover upon ironing boards. l V

My invention has for its object primarily to provide an eiicient and inexpensive device or holder designed for use in conjunction with the usual or any preferred forni of ironing board whereby a cover may be held thereon and which will permit the cover to be readily applied to the ironing boa-rd or conveniently detached therefrom as occasion requires, thus dispensing With the necessity of serving a cover to the ironing board.

Another objectof the invention is to pro- .vide a holder which is fastened. upon the underside of an ironing board,'and Wherein a plurality of elements or catches are employed for gripping the cover linderneat-h the board after being properly stretched upon the top surface thereof and which are adaptedto yieldingly hold the cover in a manner to prevent it from wrinkling or slipping on the hoard.

The invention furthermore consists in the combination of new and novel parts as hereinafter described and more' particularly pointed out in the claims at the end of the description and illustrated in the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification in which similar characters of reference. indicate corresponding parts.

` inthe drawing` Figurel is an inverted planpf an ironing board with one form of the cover holder applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a section through the ironing` board and holder. Fig. S is an enlarged perspective view of one of the gripping elements, and Fig. 4 is a top plan of an ironing hoard with the holder applied thereto.

The device or holder 10 may be employed with the usual or any preferred form of ironing board 11. The holder 10 has a base-plate 12 which may be fastened in any suitable manner upon substantially the center of one surface of the ironing board and said base-plate is preferably of a form havingt-wo opposed straight edges 13 and 14, and taperedy or pointed ends 15 and 16. Substantially centrally of the hase-plate 12 is provided a plurality of projecting pins or screws 17ivhich are darranged at spaced intervals lengthwise of said plate, and each of `said pins or/screvvs 17, has a head 18 upon the free end thereof. I preferably employ six of the pins or screws 17, though any numberof said pins may be used, and upon each of the pins 17 is movably held one or a plurality of yielding gripping elements or catches 19 by which the cover20 of the ironing board is detachably held thereon.

Each of the yielding gripping elements or catches 19 is composed of a spring Orre.- silient member 21 having an arm 21EL at one of its ends upon which is formed an eye or opening 22 through which is passed the projecting part of one of the pins 17, and at the opposite end of ,each of said springs is an eye o1' opening 23. vHeld in the eye or opening 23 of each of the springs 21 is an eye or opening 2-1 formed upon one end of a rod 25, and upon thc opposite end of each of said rods is provided 'a hook 26 having a sharpzg-ned or tapered free end. Upon each of the pins `17 of the plate 12 are held the eyes 22 of two of the springs or resilient members 21 so that said members may be guided in opposite directions for the hooks 26 ot' thc rods thereof to grip and hold the cover 20 at the opposed side edges of the ironing hoard 11. ln order to properly hold the ends of the cover 20 after being overlapped on the underside ot' the ironing hoard` upon each ot' the end pins 17 is movably held a third yielding gripping clement or catch 27. Each of the yielding gripping elements or catches 27 comprises a spring or resilient member 2S having at one of its ends an eye or opening 30 through which is guided the 'projecting part' of the pin 17.

it the opposite cud of the spring 2S is van eye or opening 31 and in said eye 31 is movably held one'cnd of a plurality of rods 32, 3?. 31. 85. Uponthe opposite end of each of said rods is a hook 3G having a tapered or sharpened free end similar to the hooks 26 of the gripping elements or catches 19, and over said catches as Well as the yielding" catches 27 is provided a top-plate 37 which may be identical in form to the base-plate,-

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or may he of an)7 desired shape, said topplate heing secured to the hase-plate in any suitable manner.

ln the foregoing` description l have enihodied the preferred forni ot iny invention7 hut l do not -wish to he understood as limiting myself thereto3 as l ain aware that niodilieations muy he made therein without do parting from the principle or sacrificing' any of the advantages olf this invention, therejliore l reserve to niyselr". the right toinalie such cl'iangery as fairly 'lall within the seope thereof.

Having thus described my invention7 lf elaiin as new and desire to secure hy Letters Patent :m

l. A holder for ironing board covers, comprising' u hase-plate having a plurality 'of pins i'irojeeting from one ot its surfaces -held in the second eye of each of the resilient members; and a hook provided upon the opposile end nl nach of the rods adapted to engage the @over upon one side of an iron ing board when applied thereto.

Q. A holder for ironing' hoard Covers, comprising a base-plate having' a plinality of pins projecting from one of its surfaces substantially Centrally of the length thereof. said base-plate having straight side edges and opposed tapered ends; a plurality of springs, eaeh havinO1 1n arm upon one of its ends in Which is formed an opening whereby said arnris inovahly held upon one of the pins and having` an eye upon the opposit/e end thereof; a plurality of rods, each having an opening' in one of its ends in which is inovulily held the eye of each of the springs; a hook provided `upon the opposite end o'l" each of the rods and having,T a pointed free end adapted to engage the (foyer upon one side of an ironing' hoard when applied thereto, and u top-plate fasi tened to the hase-plate, said lop-plate hav ing` straight side edges and opposed tapered ends.

'lhis specification .signed and witnessed this eighteenth day ot lehruary il. D. 1191i.

EDlVAl-l) il'. PPLETON.

Witnesses loBT. B. nnm'ir, .5. M. Jnnnn. i 

